Beloved Children's Books [Of Recent Note]. The staff of The Morning News recall their favorites.

Cassette tape skeletons. Kottke pointed me towards book-artist Brian Dettmer’s latest project. Very cool.

Apartment Therapy: The Amazing Staircase. Prepare to drool over these bookcase stairs. Biblioporn ahead.

Reminder: Roman Polanski raped a child. Related: Finely-argued skewering of Polanski’s defenders.

Chinatown. James Hynes on Polanski’s “Ezra Pound Defense.”